Next Generation Banknotes: Additional Feature for the Vision Impaired

runway · February 16, 2015, 11:03:29 PM

Tactile marking on new Banknotes announced
http://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2015/mr-15-02.html

ausjack · February 17, 2015, 12:38:03 AM

mmmm interesting, shame they did have a pic.

runway · February 22, 2015, 12:32:28 AM

No picture but suppose they are same notes?
Interesting hey

ausjack · February 22, 2015, 01:02:13 AM

I wonder how they will go after being in circulation for a while as it might lose the effect pretty quick but I thought that was part the reason why they make them different sizes.

Mister T · February 22, 2015, 02:51:50 PM

Quote from: 'runway' pid='67399' dateline='1424527348'No picture but suppose they are same notes?
Interesting hey

Do you remember the designs that came out a year or two ago? They had some dot patterns which looked to me like Braille, though I'm not sure.

Goldseeker · February 22, 2015, 04:31:06 PM

If they are going to use brail, how will the note counting equipment handle raised portions on the banknote?

Mister T · February 22, 2015, 08:33:18 PM

I assume they'd poke hot little spheres into the note and create a sort of bubble or something like that.

Greg McDonald · February 23, 2015, 10:18:46 PM

Don't know who came up with the idea first but when I was in the Netherlands around 1980, the system was in place there. From memory the denominations back then were 5, 10 and 20 Guilder....there might have been higher denominations but I had just turned 21 and even a 20 guilder was something I mainly saw other people handling. Anyway the 5g had a single raised dot in the lower left hand corner. The 10g had two dots, the 20g three dots etc (I guess). Hardly rocket science and in this nanny society we seem to be embracing I am amazed that a genuine good thing took so long to be considered. Also scary that it took a kid still dealing with puberty to convince all those government pointy heads that the idea had merit. Makes you wonder how they work out their priorities in Treasury Land. No one gives a toss about blind people potentially getting ripped off but no problems about burning $9m on a god-awful series of "young" looking series of portraits.
Bet they will come up with something way more complicated than one dot for $5 etc. Anyway a rare win for common sense.

spraggdean23 · February 23, 2015, 11:02:01 PM

I found it quite astonishing that the Rba were printing banknotes for a couple of other countries with the tactile markings on them but when the young vision impaired boy mentioned by Greg asked them if they could also do this for Australian banknotes they told him NO at first!!

runway · February 27, 2015, 11:53:29 PM

Quote from: 'Greg McDonald' pid='67541' dateline='1424692126'Don't know who came up with the idea first but when I was in the Netherlands around 1980, the system was in place there. From memory the denominations back then were 5, 10 and 20 Guilder....there might have been higher denominations but I had just turned 21 and even a 20 guilder was something I mainly saw other people handling. Anyway the 5g had a single raised dot in the lower left hand corner. The 10g had two dots, the 20g three dots etc (I guess). Hardly rocket science and in this nanny society we seem to be embracing I am amazed that a genuine good thing took so long to be considered. Also scary that it took a kid still dealing with puberty to convince all those government pointy heads that the idea had merit. Makes you wonder how they work out their priorities in Treasury Land. No one gives a toss about blind people potentially getting ripped off but no problems about burning $9m on a god-awful series of "young" looking series of portraits.
Bet they will come up with something way more complicated than one dot for $5 etc. Anyway a rare win for common sense.

Well said macca :wavemulticolor:

interest · February 28, 2015, 10:02:06 AM

Maybe they could cut one corner off for the fiver, two corners off for the tenner, three corners off for the twenties, four corners off for the fifties & leave all corners on for the hundreds.

Goose · March 02, 2015, 02:26:04 PM

T'won't work. A visionally impaired guy is owed $50. The guy that owes him the money take a $5 bill and cuts the remaining 3 corners off and pays the guy. Hmmm.

runway · March 03, 2015, 11:19:47 PM

Visually impaired people can be taken advantage of by the assholes in this world, so trust for people and carers is a major issue for them

ausjack · March 03, 2015, 11:34:13 PM

True runway but you don't have to be visually impaired.

interest · March 03, 2015, 11:34:50 PM

Quote from: 'Goose' pid='67919' dateline='1425268564'T'won't work. A visionally impaired guy is owed $50. The guy that owes him the money take a $5 bill and cuts the remaining 3 corners off and pays the guy. Hmmm.

This now becomes a Seinfeld sketch.

How does, the visionally impaired guy, know he actually handed over a $50?